Funnily, my mind first made me consider pressure by Microsoft to raise the steam version cost to make it a less attractive proposition compared to the windows version, before realizing this was a tariff reaction. Goes to show how I imagine Microsoft’s powers and intentions in my mind :)

I didn’t take it as a critique of Ente, not to worry! I’m not affiliated in any way, I just wanted to provide some context to people who may be concerned about the vendor locking aspect specifically.

Of course how you manage your media, your needs and your finances are all a very personal matter, I also self-host my photo backup, but I use ente in a complementary fashion, and I don’t backup everything to it. It just makes it convenient to collect, share and aggregate media between ente members and non-members.

Cheers!

In the case of ente, they have gone above and beyond to give full control to their users of their backing up process and backed up media:

• they provide a sync feature from ente to a local destination on your computer using the desktop app. It can run continuously to reflect all changes to your media and its organization in ente.
• they provide a CLI, so that you can program and implement your own export behavior it seems.

To me, it really shows they care about the users and do their best to avoid vendor lock-in.

And I personally feel much more confident in a company when their business model is a paid one. I’m a very happy customer, I have also convinced multiple people who seem happy too.

I will always remember my first experience using MacOS: I am comfortable with computers and a relative needed help with their recently purchased macbook. I had plugged in a USB stick to transfer some files and was done and wanted to eject it. I spent way too much time than I care to admit, trying all possible options, right-clicks, settings, everything imaginable, to eject the damn thing.

It was impossible to me to find the simplest operation with a USB stick, something required to operate it. I capitulated and looked online. The solution? I had to drag and drop the USB stick icon into the trashcan!?!?!?

To this day, I will never understand the absolute ridicule of this and I will never comprehend how anyone is expected to figure it out on their own. And this is from the OS touted as the most user friendly and intuitive. Go figure.

Edit: this was a long while back, no idea how it is nowadays.

Fascinating, what do you call the white-red decoration? This is very traditional in Bulgaria and is called Martenitsa and is typically hung or given away on Baba Marta on March 1st, for good wishes in health and luck, until spring comes.

Is it the same /similar in Romania?

Sorry didn’t mean to sound condescending, but capacitors can indeed output their charge at extremely high rates but have terrible energy storage capacity. You would need an unreasonably large capacitor bank, but it is technically feasible as that’s what the CERN has. But in this case batteries are a more suitable option, they can be tuned between energy and power to fit the exact use case more appropriately.

Capacitors, lol

Have you explored your GPU and CPU and memory utilization? On Linux, mangohud is a great tool for this. Verify which component is bottlenecking you performance, you may see something happening when your performance drops.

If something is visible, you may want to target it for an upgrade. If not, something else may be an issue. You may also compare with a fresh setup of nobara just to rule out any misconfiguration or other driver related issues?

Remove unused conda packages and caches:

conda clean --all

If you are a Python developer, this can easily be several or tens of GB.

Quick note, in some countries you can get refurbished steam decks:

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamdeckrefurbished/

Department Of Grifty Edgelords.

Would you be able to share more info? I remember reading their issues with docker, but I don’t recall reading about whether or what they switched to. What is it now?

A while back I was looking for a FOSS EDA and saw overwhelming support for Kicad, but some people reluctantly supported it exactly due to poor UX/UI. I was looking for something easy to pick up and I stumbled on LibrePCB and they are very user friendly to me. If you need particularly advanced features or depend on large existing libraries it may not be for you but for smaller hobby projects I think it’s great.

Perhaps worth a shot?

In December they pushed a pretty big update with many new features: https://librepcb.org/blog/2024-12-01_release_1.2.0/

In this case, without clicking any links in the email, why don’t you just simply go to the proton website manually and log in for good measure?

This is an article about the following youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTsBP21-XpI

Edit: I recommend

Tldw: guy tests the RX 6800 at 1080p, 1440p and 4k across 19 games on Windows 11 vs Nobara 41.

Allegedly, nobara beats windows on all games except 2 (witcher 3 and CS2), across almost all resolutions, by around single digit percents.

Rumors denied by Valve

Regarding photos, and videos specifically:

I know you said you are starting with selfhosting so your question was focusing on that, but I would like to also share my experience with ente which has been working beautifully for my family, partner and myself. They are truly end to end encrypted, with the source code available on github.

They have reasonable prices. If you feel adventurous you can actually also host it yourself. They have advanced search features and face recognition which all run on device (since they can’t access your data) and it works very well. They have great sharing and collaborating features and don’t lock features behind accounts so you can actually gather memories from people on your quota by just sharing a link. You can also have a shared family plan.

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